The exception Breakpoint. A Breakpoint has been reached. (MetaShader Build Error)

[RyanJMcGowan]

See attached image with a stack trace that appeared on a popup modal. This popup occurred only once.

 

Machine specs:

Version 2.5.6.

Windows 10 64-bit

i7 -8700

32 GB Ram

Dual Displays 1920x1080

NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti

 

Steps to error:

Opened DCS > Training > Anti-Radar Missiles, RWR and Countermeasures.

During opening, Windows informed that the application is not responding. I selected Wait for DCS.

All training missions and instant actions seem to be an issue.

This behavior is consistent and stops at precisely the same point (caucasusafbbuildings_new.ref) during loading.

A full repair was completed to no effect.

 

Other information:

I noticed in the dxdiag file this line:

Problem signature:
P1: s3browser-con.exe

I don't know if DCS uses s3browser to send data to a bucket, or if it's my installation because I use it as well. If DCS uses it, I wonder if there exists a key configuration conflict.

A crash report was also sent today at 1:54 pm PST for this issue. Hash: 08ab5ce768116bcfea945898a49cbad5

 

Also, DCS often hangs on the startup screen on both of my machines. Possibly related.

[Lange_666]

Lots of shader errors these last few days (so you're not alone).

Did you update to the latest "preview" of Windows 10?

Did you try to remove the fxo and metashaders2 directory's in your Saved Games\DCS folder and let them rebuild?

 

[Ohioflyer15]

Lange, I have the same issue and I did update to the latest preview...

I started another thread possibly pointing the finger at that with logs etc

[Flappie]

Hi @RyanJMcGowan. Please attach the most recent ZIP file you can find in "C:\Users\username\Saved Games\DCS...\Logs".

[RyanJMcGowan]

I will update to Windows with all optional updates at the end of the day, try again, and upload a new zip. If that doesn't work, I'll try the Windows Preview edition.

Edited February 25, 2021 by RyanJMcGowan

[Lange_666]

23 hours ago, Lange_666 said:

Did you update to the latest "preview" of Windows 10?

 

23 hours ago, Ohioflyer15 said:

Lange, I have the same issue and I did update to the latest preview...

 

I've asked this because i did read this over at ghack's.net a couple of days ago. I have the preview in my downloadcue and it stays there until further notice.

[exil]

Same problem here. DCS crashes after a couple of minutes (1-4) ingame. I did a complete fresh install with no luck. Also, my Metashaders in my saved games folder are not building up. It is completly empty!

 

Hope there is some fix for it soon!

dcs.log-20210226-200218.zip

Edited February 26, 2021 by exil
Attached LogFile

[Flappie]

Hi @exil. Your crash symptom ("DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED") is very different from the one this thread is about . Please read this post and try the different solutions. If you keep having the same kind of crash after this, please create a new thread.

 

By the way, metashaders2 folder is often empty when you're not playing. This is perfectly normal (my folder is currently empty as well).

Edited February 26, 2021 by Flappie

[exil]

2 minutes ago, Flappie said:

Hi @exil. Your crash symptom ("DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED") is very different from the one this thread is about . Please read this post and try the different solutions. If you keep having the same kind of crash after this, please create a new thread.

 

By the way, metashaders2 folder is often empty when you're not playing. This is perfectly normal (my folder is currently empty as well).

 

Ah okay, I see. Thank you for your input! I will check if my GPU is sitting in the slot correctly. Didn't want to hijack this topic. I thought it would be the same problem because of the Metashaders being empty. 

[RyanJMcGowan]

I ran all optional updates and attempted again. Attached is the latest zip file.

dcs.log-20210227-001521.zip

[Flappie]

Mate, your pagefile size is zero. DCS hates this.

 

=== Log opened UTC 2021-02-27 00:09:24
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: Command line: "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS.exe" 
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: DCS/2.5.6.55960 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19042)
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: DCS revision: 175957
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: Renderer revision: 20900
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: Terrain revision: 20771
2021-02-27 00:09:23.649 INFO    DCS: CPU cores: 6, threads: 12, System RAM: 32571 MB, Pagefile: 0 MB

 

Let Windows manage the pagefile size automatically. Your DCS will thank you for that.

 

[RyanJMcGowan]

I ran upgrade and it works now. I thought I had done this already, but that was apparently on my laptop, not the culprit PC.

 

Thank you for looking into it. The issue is resolved.

[Flappie]

@RyanJMcGowanYou mean you upgraded DCS?

[RyanJMcGowan]

@Flappie Correct, or rather I *updated DCS. I was not on the latest release.

[Flappie]

Many thanks for your feedback.